After Monocle, Stephen Jones and Daphne Guinness, Comme des Garçons partners up with the cult Finnish design company Artek, founded by Alvar Aalto, to launch a fragrance with a distinctly Boreal flavor. Comme des Garçons' trademark “anti-perfume” notes – in this case, a hint of metallic tang bolstering the lemon-ginger opening – blended with two seldom-used materials gathered in the Great North: Finnish Labrador Tea (also known as Indian Tea), extracted from a fir-smelling evergreen shrub, and twinflower, an almond-tinged blossom from the honeysuckle family. The overall effect, however, is unmistakably Comme des Garçons: a medicinal-woody scent, vibrant with the combustible, pencil-shaving fumes of cedar and a cold, almost incense-like effect. Highly diffusive, totally distinctive and as elegantly pared-down as Alvar Aalto's iconic Mid-century Modern designs. You can't get edgier than that.

Standard Fragrance Notes

Finnish Labrador Tea, Twinflower (Linnea Borealis), fennel, ginger, lemon, musk, saffron, cedarwood

Standard Sizes Available:

100ml

$115

0.7ml sample

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Here's what other people are saying about Standard...

The very eclectic CDG's take on the modern citrus musk (and a collaboration with design house 'artek') offers two Scandinavian ingredients that are unique to this class of perfumes - Finnish Labrador Tea and Linnaea borealis blossom in addition to the usual notes of ginger, lemon, dill, musk, saffron and cedar. The result is a light radiant beauty which is still very edgy and unique. This is a safe scent that can be easily worn around anyone and by either genders. Sillage and projection like most of the CDGs is moderate. This is yet another winner from the house that is at the cutting edge of modern perfumery art with very eclectic, contemporary, and abstract offerings.

By Rajesh Balkrishnan - Professor and Perfumer from Charlottesville on 1/28/2019

About a year and a half ago when I was just starting to discover that I was really into fragrances this was the first bottle I bought. I loved it at first but as I started to learn about different notes I realized that this is very synthetic. It smells very good but there's nothing natural about it. It's filled with Iso Super E. Nice fragrance but I don't want to walk around with a synthetic scent. I have very little left of it and will not be buying it again. I'm not sorry I bought it though.

By Odin88 - Pastry Chef from NYC on 11/19/2015

I love the smell of fresh plywood in the morning....

By Anonymous on 1/29/2010

This is a very light scent, but it lasts for hours. However, for me, the cedar smell was just too overpowering. The ginger and floral notes do help soften it a little.

By Anonymous - Graphic Designer from Los Angeles on 11/25/2009

Fantastic scent! Smells like a combination of Fir wood oil and a light subtle incense fragrance such as CdG Kyoto. I got a bottle of this and have not regretted it. It gets better every time I wear it.

By Anonymous - from Oklahoma City on 11/23/2009

Pencil shavings, fennel-ginger touch of tuberose and Jalismer. Reminiscent of Jalismer and the tea leaves Green scent, but woodier, starnger, a little foody and one dimensional. It fits in the CdG line really well, but it's perhaps not different enough in the right way from Jalismer--but you get the "wooden chair" they were going for. Decent sillage 4 hours or so.

By stellite parnsinsnos - Xmas Designer on 11/16/2009

I wanted to comment again on this, now that I've been wearing it a few times. I got lots of compliments, often hours after I had applied, so the longevity was very good, and the sillage must be too as people who were 4-5 feet away from me could smell it! This is really good stuff.

By Anonymous - from San Diego on 11/10/2009

Another wonderful creation by CDG. They do wood like nobody else. A very diffusive scent with good sillage and longevity. Thanks once again CDG!

By Anonymous on 11/10/2009

Its a great fragrance to be sure. However the only thing worse than a bad fragrance is a great fragrance with NO SILLAGE! The longevity is good, but I can't have my nose glued to my wrist every time I want to wear this.

By Anonymous on 11/7/2009

Jaisalmer + Incense Extreme = ARTEK/CDG STANDARD EDT

By trentee - VA/LD on 11/3/2009

incense series no. 7(after hinoki and the others). smells soo much like hinoki. if you can deal with pine/christmas tree smell, then by all means try. i can't.

By Anonymous on 11/3/2009

Just ordered a bottle of this after testing it for a couple of days. This is sort of a signature scent kind of fragrance. I love it. Much more wearable than Hinoki. I love the tea note in this in the drydown.

By Barry - from Memphis on 10/30/2009

Woody subtle and different. Hint of sweet rust. I like.

By Anonymous on 10/26/2009

This is really good stuff - reminds me a bit of Jaisalmer, CdG for H&M and Penhaligon's Elixir. Very easy to wear and an excellent addition to the CdG repertoire

By Anonymous - from San Diego on 10/25/2009

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